ForbesBluetooth is one of the most popular short-range wireless communications technologies in use today and is built into many types of devices, from phones, smartwatches and TVs to medical equipment and car infotainment systems. Many of those devices are now at risk of being hacked due to critical flaws found in the Bluetooth implementations of the operating systems they use.
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The Seattle Times The first time you hear about Nina Vaca, you wonder why you've never heard of her before.
At 46, this married mother of four owns a billion-dollar-plus tech staffing company, competes in triathlons for charity and supports STEM education efforts while uplifting the aspirations of women and minorities.
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Dallas Business JournalWhen Fujitsu engaged a service provider about its struggles reaching small business clients, the company ended up solving the client's problems and then some.
The ultimate solution, Fujitsu's Virtual Access Network, or VAN, ended up having a much larger deployable use. The company is up for a Tech Titans award in the Corporate Innovation category.READ MORE

Dallas Business JournalArun Bhikshesvaran has made a lot of pitches, but one of them sticks out.
It was the early 2000s, and Cingular Wireless had just been created via the merger between BellSouth and SBC Communications, which at the time created the second-largest wireless carrier. Bhikshesvaran, who'd only started installing systems in the field for Ericsson about five years earlier, was trying to sell the new mega-company on GSM, one of the two major radio signal systems used in cell phones.READ MORE

Dallas Business JournalConcerned that robots and automation are disrupting huge swaths of the U.S. economy? You ain't seen nothin' yet.
For years, industrial robots have increasingly displaced human beings in manufacturing-heavy sectors such as automobiles and consumer electronics. However, a new report released by Citi and the University of Oxford predicts that as much as 80 percent of retail and related warehousing jobs are now at risk from automation. Likewise, some 63 percent of sales jobs are also at risk, the report said.READ MORE

The New York TimesNissa Scott started working at the cavernous Amazon warehouse in southern New Jersey late last year, stacking plastic bins the size of small ottomans. It was not, she says, the most stimulating activity. And lifting the bins, which often weigh 25 pounds each, was also tiring over 10-hour shifts.
Now Scott, 21, watches her replacement — a giant, bright yellow mechanical arm — do the stacking.READ MORE

The BladeSome students who wear glasses — or perhaps should wear glasses — can make do with a desk near the front of the classroom.
That wasn’t the case for Kasandra Romero. When she started her freshman year at Montpelier High School last fall, she would have to literally stand in front of the board to see if her teachers had scrawled anything of importance. Kasandra is legally blind, with retinopathy of prematurity leaving her corrected vision so poor that she can’t make out even the face of someone sitting beside her.READ MORE

JAXenterThe world of connected devices has enormous potential but it is clear that we need distributed edge cloud to fulfill this promise. Developers can leverage edge cloud to write their applications and accelerate the growth of IoT but are they really ready for the new era of edge cloud computing?
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EE TimesCircuit prototyping traditionally requires tedious layouts using CAD tools, transfer of those plans to a printed-circuit board maker, precise placement of components on the pc board using pick-and-place robots, and then a wave soldering step to establish electrical contact between the components and the board. Prototyping engineers wait weeks before they can test the circuit board, find its flaws, and repeat the process until they get it right.READ MORE